Metadata: Klausen Synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 182
- Title:
- Klausen Synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Klausová synagoga
- Creator/accumulator:
- Klausen Synagogue
- Date(s):
- 1689/1941
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2.17 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a pinkas (ledger), marriage banns registers, registers of synagogue seats, charitable foundation files, books of donations, minutes of board meetings, documents relating to synagogue staff, correspondence, sermons and speeches for various occasions, records of the Boruch Sheomar association.
- Archival history:
- The records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish communities and organisations that had been disbanded.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Klausen Synagogue was built on the site of a smaller house of prayer, ritual bath and school (collectively called “Klausen”), which were founded by Mordecai Maisel in the 1560s. The building was completed in 1694. The synagogue was used as a place of worship by the Prague Burial Society. The west section of the building was extended and the external facade was altered during its reconstruction by architect Bedřich Münzberger in 1883–1884. The building was used by the Central Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War. The interior was restored after the war. It now houses one of the Jewish Museum's exhibitions.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: books and files relating to the Jewish community, financial books and files.
- Finding aids:
- Hamáčková, V: Klausová synagoga, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1985, 5 s., ev. č. 182.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
